Monetization is really important, bla bla bla…we all know how important it is to find new ways to grow our revenue streams and I dont think theres any need to explain that point anymore before explaining just why the following tricks are so important to practice in order to earn (more) money. Before I get to the actual tips I need to go over a few things such as building up to a revenue, nothing good isn’t achieved without hard work, they say that for a reason, just like in order to get a good pagerank you need to get alot of links, you need to work alot on your blog in order to be a 4 figure blogger. I know 4 figures don’t sound like alot but everyone has to start somewhere now, I’m already a 3 figure blogger so a 4 figure earning month would be milestone for me. If you set your sights too high you might never get there, its easier if you start off small, If you are earning nothing then your goal should be more like 10-40$/month, if you are already doing that then your goal should be 100$/month, every other zero that gets added to your monthly income is a milestone and you should make a goal to keep increasing it further on.

So, lets talk more about monetization, I’ve covered several areas of blog monetization before but this is like non other.

Content for monetization

If you want to make money blogging, you need content and alot of it. Alot of content over a short period of time could work if it’s really really good content, more like viral content. Otherwise it would only dampen your blog’s growth. Gradual growth is what I aimed for with my blog, it gives me more time to go over my tactics and strategies for growth and earning. 1 post a day and 500$/month is how i like to grow at a time. This blog went from 0$/mo ti 800$ in only 5 months (its a big deal for me, atleast) and is still growing, that’s a good sign because it’s still evolving.

Remember, content is, always was and always will be king. The more you blog uninterrupted, the more you will earn in the long earn, this is a rock hard fact, the more you blog useful things, the more value you build up around your blog this is also known as authority.

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Well, I’ve mentioned this before as well so here is the new theme with tons of glitches and bugs (that I’ll workout, of course), there are going to be alot more new additions to blueverse then just the theme and the new type of ads, here is a list of the things that I’m working on currently.

1. Store (ebooks,scripts and more stuff to make money off of)
2. Services - I’ll be providing quite a few services related to wordpress development and marketing.
3. More Free Stuff - There’s gonna be alot more free stuff then there was before.
4. Alot more things, I’d rather keep this a surprise.

The new theme is still filled with bugs, bugs that I’ll fix as i find them, so please lemme know when you find something wrong with the template

I just saw this today, I know that this month I was actually earning more then other months because of my proper monetization but I didn’t know that 45n5 knew that, it was an odd surprise when i saw myself on the 15th spot at the list at 45n5

A high spot like that gives me and my content even more authority at google, this just means that I’m one step closer to a 4 figure monthly income. Theres alot more going on that’s going to strengthen blueverse even more in the future, the seo tactics I use don’t pay up right away but tehy are great in the long run and get even better as time passes by, I guess this is proof that it’s working, I’m earning more therefore I’m being ranked for it.

After all the obvious monetization procedures there comes the question, should I or should I not sell text links? Frankly this question has an easy answer, YES. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s still a no-no by google but you need to either be smart yourself or get a link broker that is smart enough to lay low and still sell links on your site 24 hours a day 7 days a week and, like LinkXL (review coming up tomorrow), they offer great support for their publishers (like moi) and they even offer to help you get setup if you are having problems with getting your blog hooked up to LinkXL, Most of all their service is much more discreet and low low, which is what I like the most. The links are sold automatically (as usual) and you are paid at the end of the month for the link.

It’s okay to sell links (like i said earlier) if you have a competent broker unlike TLA which got me in a penalty ditch for 2 of my sites other then that there are tons of webmasters that blame tla for ruining their income/sites..etc. They were a little too open about buying/selling links and some of this information was leaked through several sources and I’m almost sure that they even introduced the “sponsor links” add on where they made it a must for that to be the header before the links were added, that only pissed of google enough to fully penalize the sites using TLA.

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A few days ago I tried to be a little spontaneous and walk in the rain for quite a while and it ended up with me having a fever of 102, the last few days I’ve been resting and today I felt good enough to come online and make an update here. It’s gonna be 2-3 more days until I resume my regular posting routine. There are a few wordpress themes that I might release when i continue my regular routine soon.

I’m also thinking about starting up the other blogs that i own as well, the rest that I’ve had gave me time to think about my sites and which ones I should start back up again.

This month is turning out to be more profitable then the last one after the email problem was fixed, 8 days into the month and I’ve already sold 3 125×125 ads (on the right), that leaves only 2 spots (125×125), which are occupied by my affiliate banners at the moment (which aren’t performing that great at the moment, for some reason). Other then that I’m extremely happy that I’ve hit the 500 subscriber mark, the next post about my subscribers will be when i hit 1000 subscribers and when I hit 1000 subscribers there will be even more freebies along with the announcement post.

Let’s talk a little about blog monetization now, a few days ago I posted an article on how Lisa announced her new monetization scheme, that made me think, If i can’t achieve my blog’s full earning potential then this won’t be much of a blog offering good tips on how to make money blogging, now would it? So, I went to LinkXL (full review coming up soon) and completed any steps left then made sure that buyers would be able to buy links at this blog. I know this is a red flag at google, but frankly PR doesn’t mean much to me anymore after google teased me for sitelinks and not just that, i was left out on this pagerank update as well, yep, I’m still a PR4 here, after so much linkbuilding and work, all i got out of it was stronger serps but not a higher pagerank. I’d rather get a stronger technorati rank to earn more money. My current technorati rank : 17,636 and Authority : 337 with 708 reactions. If you’re interested in supporting this blog then fave it on techno.

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Well, it’s been quite hard for me atleast, this blog started growing really big time near the end of january and since then I wanted to see what would I get if I actively tried to get more RSS readers, after several offers of email and rss subscription I finally have more then 500 rss readers.

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Anyway, I think Lisa has done it big time viral with her backend advertising tactic after offering an ad spot on her lower back (way lower back) for a mere $100k, personally, I think models can get more for such advertising, body advertisements aren’t new to the media but this is more like Blog monetization that’s why it’s a new one even for long time bloggers such as John chow. Since there aren’t many attractive bloggers, I’m supporting Lisa and her cause here!

Either way, monetization tactics are always evolving so much that its hard to keep up sometimes.So, kudos to Lisa and let’s hope Kevin doesn’t get that spot for digg, that wouldn’t be much of a turn on having DIGG written at that certain place. (pun intended, again :p)

Well, I must be doing something right, I was ranked as the 5th top blogger under 21 at retire at 21.

All the hard work done by the following bloggers is a must-read, they aren’t on the top blogger’s list for nothing ya know, the blogs over at 45n5 are ranked by how much money they make solely but this list is made by the overall skills of a blog and it’s blogger. The blogs are ranked on several things such as content, readers, comments, authority, pagerank, techno rank, alexa rank and most importantly THEIR AGE.

The younger you are when you achieve success or recognition, the better!

And theres more, I’m ranking no.3 for blogging tips now as well

The list is below, are you in it?

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